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Just to say; This report will be light on pictures as it was clag from one thousand feet up.
We set of from Dunbar at 10:10 and were in the car park and ready by 11:00. The path goes through a short wooded section for three hundred or so meters then crosses a road and through a gate. From there it would be impossible to get lost as the bulk of Turn-house Hill sits directly in front of you. The path ascends via a small ridge that comes out the front of the hill and leads you past a clump of trees. The path is rather stony and can be loose in places but not difficult. From there there are several false summits before it emerges onto the summit of turn-house, it is marked with a small cairn and apart from that it is a uneventful affair.
The descent is minimal and from there I'm assured that Carnethy looks almost alpine when under snow. I however cannot vouch for that as visibility was down to forty feet and maybe a hundred for large objects like hills. This probably made many things that would never be mistaken for a summit under more favorable conditions look rather like a summit dome. The path is straight forward if steep in places and when the summit is achieved you will not miss it. The top of Carnethy is adorned with a cairn about twenty meters in diameter with a central peak and seven or so semi-circular shelters around it. It was there we stopped for lunch and after twenty minutes we set off for Scald Law. This time the path drops 330 feet to the col between Carnethy and Scald law before climbing buck up another 340 feet to the summit of Scald law.
The path up is straight forward and easy if slightly stony underfoot. The summit of Scald law has a trig point, the only one of the day, and is fairly large, if not as expansive as Carnethys. From there is is a fairly long and shallow descent to the bottom of East Kip. The hill from that point appears to loom hundreds of feet above you and look rather steep, it is in fact the easiest ascent of the walk and would give nice views down Glencorse. We descended via a path that leads down form the col at the bottom of East Kip to Loganlea Reservoir
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- East Kip descent looking west towards Hare hill
From there it is another five of so Km on a nice tarmacked track round two reservoirs and back to the start.
